Roush Nobody has mentioned this car yet?

#2
2000xp8 said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-Mustang-Saleen-1988-Ford-Saleen-Mustang-Notchback-Coupe-Original-393_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6236QQihZ018QQitemZ280158630150QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

Looks like alot of work to me.

Wish i had one of these, it's just i'm thinking between paint and restoration at a 6k selling price, you'll easily exceed the value considering the car has 154k on the clock.
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Sorry Joe,


We have been talking about it for over a week on the other boards. In a nutshell, the guy put it up on Craigslist a week and a half ago for 2,500 bucks and had so many people come calling that he only felt it fair to put it on ebay.

154k miles on it but I was offered 20 for mine 6 months ago and mine could use paint also. It's just one of those cars, you know. If you want a Saleen with a trunk and roll up windows the pickens get slim.
 
#4
90SaleenSC said:
yeah, i have been following this car for the last week & 1/2 or so also. worth every penny IMO.
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Wow, I am very surprised it brought that much coin. Not worth it IMO. Watch the guy only provide the new owner with half the Saleen extra's then use EBAY to sell the rest and make 9k for a car with no motor/tranny which was sold, so maybe 12-14k the guy will get...crazy:lol: :lol:
 
#5
marcus95 said:
Sorry Joe,


We have been talking about it for over a week on the other boards. In a nutshell, the guy put it up on Craigslist a week and a half ago for 2,500 bucks and had so many people come calling that he only felt it fair to put it on ebay.

154k miles on it but I was offered 20 for mine 6 months ago and mine could use paint also. It's just one of those cars, you know. If you want a Saleen with a trunk and roll up windows the pickens get slim.
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Then this is the car mark at PA told me he turned down. He said at that number there would no profit.
And that's him taking it home for $2500.

Yours is all original correct?
And marcus, saying your car could use paint too, compared to that one, lol.
Maybe yours could be even nicer with a paint job, but that one, needs one.
 
#6
Shoot, I easily have roughly $20K in my car already and haven't even touched the engine yet, although I do have all the necessary supporting modes for the heads and cam.

However, i do plan on keeping it for a long time. Mark didn't see profit in it, but it still seems like an ok deal.
 
#7
i still say the car was worth it for the history & production #s these cars have. so it needs to be put back together. big deal. i have the means to put it back together myself with my own 2 hands unlike most who would send it out to be redone because they cant fix a thing LOL. sending the car out to be restored by a shop will make the resto 3 times at much atleast & that would make the car not worth it. lets hear it for the do it yourselfers who are mechanically inclined! yay :-)
 
#8
Biggest concern is really the paint. Not sure what you guys pay for a quality paint job, but here in the northeast, a crummy job is $2500, a show quality job is $6500+, so let's call it, $4500, now you are 12k deep in the car, and it's still a mess.
That's what scares me, mechanically it isn't that big of a deal, but the odds and ends add up.

It's just a shame somebody let that car get that bad.
 
#9
Doing all the work yourself you might do ok on it but, at the price it sold for I doubt it. Big issue now is that everyone knows it was abused then repaired. That hurts the value. Honestly if it had been sold privately then, repaired the value wouldn't have taken much of a hit. The only issue that would have came up is explaining why the VIN numbers were missing on the body panels that got replaced. I've built alot of cars (mostly 94-95 GT/s and Cobra's) that had damage like this one and no one could tell. Thing is that those aren't collector cars like the Saleen and the people who bought them didn't go over every square inch of the car trying to find missing VIN stickers of the body panels or looking for fresh paint or any other sign of repair work. All and all if someone bought it to keep because they wanted that specific car then they will get what they want. I prefer to wait for the right car and not the first thing that pops up.
 
#10
2000xp8 said:
Biggest concern is really the paint. Not sure what you guys pay for a quality paint job, but here in the northeast, a crummy job is $2500, a show quality job is $6500+, so let's call it, $4500, now you are 12k deep in the car, and it's still a mess.
That's what scares me, mechanically it isn't that big of a deal, but the odds and ends add up.

It's just a shame somebody let that car get that bad.
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Joe,


You hit the nail on the head about somebody letting the car get that bad in the first place. I was thinking the same thing. Hell, in his descritption he says he bought it from the original dealership with only 12,000 miles on it.

What a shame.
 
#11
Saleen

marcus95 said:
Sorry Joe,


We have been talking about it for over a week on the other boards. In a nutshell, the guy put it up on Craigslist a week and a half ago for 2,500 bucks and had so many people come calling that he only felt it fair to put it on ebay.

154k miles on it but I was offered 20 for mine 6 months ago and mine could use paint also. It's just one of those cars, you know. If you want a Saleen with a trunk and roll up windows the pickens get slim.
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What other boards?
 
#13
88 Coupe

To me in this case the mileage means nothing.Once a car passes 100,000 it doesn't factor in.The replacement fender and hood may hurt alittle .Because this car is so rare,if it is restored by a Legendary Motorcar type of shop,it is still going to be valueable.If the car is just painted at an ordinary body shop and fixed up,that is not a restoration,that is a car with a paint job.
 
#14
Saleenjunky said:
Because this car is so rare,if it is restored by a Legendary Motorcar type of shop,it is still going to be valueable..
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this i can agree with to a certain extent - but, over priced Legendary motorcar shop not needed.


[/QUOTE]If the car is just painted at an ordinary body shop and fixed up,that is not a restoration,that is a car with a paint job.[/QUOTE]

this i cannot agree with. plenty of do it yourselfers can restore this car themselves as well as decent body shops LOL. it doesnt have to go to a high dollar "Legendary Motorcar type of shop". after building my car from the ground up which was in worse condition that this 88 coupe, i learned that a fox mustang is a very easy car to work on, take part & put back together. all the Saleen parts are included w/ that coupe so not too much parts chasing except for the seat material. geeze, does anyone do their own work on their cars anymore or do they just send it off to a shop to pay rediculous amouts of money? that car can be stripped the rest of the way & sent off to a decent body shop for a paint job (jams etc...) & them reassembled by the owner. that still counts towards restoring it!
it doesnt have to be as complicated sending it to that high priced shop.
 
#18
90SaleenSC said:
this i can agree with to a certain extent - but, over priced Legendary motorcar shop not needed.
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If the car is just painted at an ordinary body shop and fixed up,that is not a restoration,that is a car with a paint job.[/QUOTE]

this i cannot agree with. plenty of do it yourselfers can restore this car themselves as well as decent body shops LOL. it doesnt have to go to a high dollar "Legendary Motorcar type of shop". after building my car from the ground up which was in worse condition that this 88 coupe, i learned that a fox mustang is a very easy car to work on, take part & put back together. all the Saleen parts are included w/ that coupe so not too much parts chasing except for the seat material. geeze, does anyone do their own work on their cars anymore or do they just send it off to a shop to pay rediculous amouts of money? that car can be stripped the rest of the way & sent off to a decent body shop for a paint job (jams etc...) & them reassembled by the owner. that still counts towards restoring it!
it doesnt have to be as complicated sending it to that high priced shop.[/QUOTE]


I agree 100%. Their are a lot of shops that can do a very high quality paint job. It's not in the spray but the sanding and buffing between the steps.

The rest is easy. I'm doing it now on my '88.
 
#20
88 coupe

I do all my own work.What I was trying to get accross is this car is one of 14 made or one of 58 which ever you want to choose it is ultra low production.I know there are alot of other low production Saleens also.What this car has going for it is the body style and being a police car.This makes it a cross collectable.The regular Mustang 5.0 coupe is demanding big dollarsand so ar SSP models. Because of the internet and other places these Saleen coupes are taking off.There have been 5-10 of these coupes stolen or totaled allready.If you look at the older muscle cars that have small numbers,these are some of the cars bringing big bucks.It just takes 100 people to want one of these cars to drive prices up.In my opinion if the car has its fender apron,rad support,sheetmetal,and other issues fixed properly by whoever,this car will hold its value.The key word is fixed properly because 90% of the shops out there don't fix things to restoration standards.This is America and everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
 
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